Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year on the first appearance of Professor Copeland in New York since his appointment to the chair of English left vacant by the resignation of Dean Briggs, the gathering of University graduates packed the rooms of the Harvard Club at the reading and at the dinner the following night nearly 150 prominent alumni were present. On the committee for the dinner are T. W. Slocum '90, President of the New York Harvard Club, J. P. Jones '02, A. C. Smith '14, T. S. Lamont '21, and P. M. Hollister '13, chairman...
...want to be sure not to cramp anybody." Senator Heflin, a Court supporter, thereupon interrupted and mentioned that, if necessary, measures for cloture (the stopping of debate so as to vote) might be taken. Vice President Dawes, who has been fighting for a better cloture rule, was in the chair, and Mr. Borah exclaimed: "I trust the Senator from Alabama observed the broad smile on the face of the Vice President." Senator Blease, whom able Democratic correspondent Frank R. Kent describes as "the supreme political patent-medicine man," was very frank in proclaiming his position : "Mr. President, something has been...
Wisconsin is at the moment planning a reorganization of its curricular and advisory systems. Dr. Meiklejohn will take his chair next month. He is sure to be asked to insert his liberal finger into the pedagogical pie, at least to the extent of describing changes he recommended and sought to introduce at Amherst, changes which were thought too revolutionary by the Amherst trustees and which necessitated his resignation as Amherst president in 1923. His incumbency at Wisconsin again postpones the advent of the "ideal college" which Dr. Meiklejohn hopes some day to found (TIME...
Then in 1882 Leo XIII (who, while he was papal nuncio in Brussels, had noted the young priest), conceived the idea of establishing a chair of philosophy in the University of Louvain to counter-balance the disarray of ideas prevalent among its students. For this professorship, all praise and recommendations centred in the studious priest, Desiré-Joseph Mercier. To Rome he went; conferred with many, including Pope Leo himself; outlined a Thomist program of scholastic philosophy with such clearness and understanding that he won quick approval. At Louvain adherents of the new professor feared he might see too many...
...persons in Auburn prison; at Hornell, N. Y., while peacefully asleep. Leon Czolgosz, famed assassin of President McKinley, was considered by Mr. Patterson the most notable criminal whom he executed. The press, however, accorded tremendous publicity to his execution of one Kemmler, a wife slayer, in the first electric chair actually put into use. He also superintended the electrocution of Mary Farmer, first woman to die in the chair. When questioned, shortly before his death as to whether he thought innocent men were ever executed, he said: "It is a good law of life to mind your own business...